classic thank goodness our enemies are so dumb moment

the joke is these companies used to know that, especially places like cognac houses, they wouldn't dramatically change production levels until they were really sure the market demanded it using price as their main demand lever but finance driven logics require grow, grow, grow even if unsustainable

Self Determination is the foundational principle of the post Second World War international order for a very important reason and its a principle very worth defending

making the choice between going to war with Argentina (and potentially Chile) or abandoning the UK's territorial claims which lays the groundwork for the claimant states being willing to accept the US proposals once the Soviets establish a presence...

its the ones who open with 3 mins of ad reads, not even a cold open or anything just several minutes of ads, yes I know you need to pay the bills but at least give me some content first

also there was a segment of the population in Crimea at least somewhat sympathetic to Russia

Entirely with you on the frustrating at the shrugging about a vital sector outside said sector.

Trying to be hopeful at the recently established cross-party parliamentary group for #UKHE 🤞

and this is very dangerous - when Trump decides these deployments are a 'provocation' US media will go with it (see what's happened Venezuela... the number of articles I've seen the last week or so talking about how the Venezuelan oil industry needs US capital/intervention to 'modernize'...)

hell what they're trying to do to Mark Kelly should be generating a lot of fuss from these supposed men of honour